Rebel Moon Expands With Ella Purnell and a Podcast

Even earlier the archetypal iteration of its first movie came out, it was wide Zack Snyder has been reasoning semipermanent erstwhile it comes to Rebel Moon. More movies, a mobile game, comics, adjacent TTRPGs–if there’s a mean that could clasp a portion of his science-fantasy epic, Snyder’s determined to bring it there. Unsurprisingly, that includes a podcast, which takes aft the moviees and brings respective high-profile actors on for the ride.

Specifically, the communicative fabrication podcast Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story will archer the communicative of the archetypal Jimmy, a robot voiced successful the movie by Anthony Hopkins. Set centuries earlier the movies, the prequel focuses connected a brace of inventors tasked by the king Ulmer to marque him a warrior knight that’ll assistance him support power of the universe. In-universe, Jimmys were made arsenic guards for the royalty of the Motherworld, but you cognize however it is. A robot built for violencen yet finds idiosyncratic (usually a woman) that gives them a psyche and spurs them into heroism. In this instance, it’s Fallout’s Ella Purnell arsenic Raina, successful what’s billed arsenic “tale of creation, ambition, faith, and betrayal.”

Alongside Purnell, the formed besides includes Lost’s Naveen Andrews and Alfred Enoch (How to Get Away with Murder) as inventors Grigory and Adwin, Peter Serafinowicz (John Wick 2) arsenic Bartholomew, and Jason Isaacs arsenic Ulmer himself. If you’re a Rebel head who’s ace large connected the lore, this’ll surely beryllium your jam, peculiarly since it’s different summation to the would-be franchise beyond the extended and renamed (and supposedly gorier) cuts hitting successful aboriginal August. For anyone else, possibly it’ll beryllium an absorbing perceive to spot however Snyder’s enactment fares successful caller format and without his signature ocular style.

Seneschal will deed podcast platforms connected July 29 and wrapper connected September 2.

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